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Locating Our Confidential Data

Identity Finder is being installed to help reduce our risk.

In an effort to try and detect confidential data on university-owned systems and reduce the risk that UMBC will be the source of a data breach, UMBC has worked with the university system to...

Posted: June 9, 2015, 10:01 AM

Recent Phishing Email Messages

How to Identify and Report Phishing Messages.

UMBC has recently been the target of an increasing number of phishing messages.  These phishing messages appear to come from the UMBC Division of Information Technology or another university...

Posted: April 28, 2015, 10:08 PM

Critical Security Flaw in Core Linux Library

Allows for complete control of a system with no credentials

Earlier this week a critical security flaw in the gethostbyname() function of glibc in Linux was exposed. This effects many major linux distributions including Redhat 5 and Redhat 6 Enterprise....

Posted: January 31, 2015, 10:59 AM

Warning: Email Phishing Attacks Targeting Faculty & Staff

Never give out your username or password

DoIT continues to receive reports of faculty and staff receiving that is part of a targeted "phishing" attack to steal your username and password information or infect your computer.  One...

Posted: April 10, 2014, 12:48 AM